Harper's Magazine, Volume 142Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen Harper & Brothers, 1920 - American literature |
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... idea . " Now , this cannot be done by coursing between railway stations . A man's knowledge is not measured by the ... ideas which recur everywhere will indicate ( as nearly as human vanity can tolerate truth ) the main lines of the ...
... idea . " Now , this cannot be done by coursing between railway stations . A man's knowledge is not measured by the ... ideas which recur everywhere will indicate ( as nearly as human vanity can tolerate truth ) the main lines of the ...
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... idea of old Puritan New England . Even in Chicago , even in half - Indian corners of Oklahoma , I found reverence for New England . And when I consider Chicago , for instance , I am amazed that anything of this reverence should survive ...
... idea of old Puritan New England . Even in Chicago , even in half - Indian corners of Oklahoma , I found reverence for New England . And when I consider Chicago , for instance , I am amazed that anything of this reverence should survive ...
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... idea of Boston is that it is an England beyond the water , the place where academic learn- ing is supreme , where refinement , tea parties , toryism , mingle with vestiges of fox - hunting into producing an agree- able England of the ...
... idea of Boston is that it is an England beyond the water , the place where academic learn- ing is supreme , where refinement , tea parties , toryism , mingle with vestiges of fox - hunting into producing an agree- able England of the ...
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... idea . It made her arrogant . It made her disdainful of her family , of Dickie Bateman , and especially of Terry . The latter was , she told herself , a mere use- less aristocrat - ornamental , but useless , a parasite brought up in ...
... idea . It made her arrogant . It made her disdainful of her family , of Dickie Bateman , and especially of Terry . The latter was , she told herself , a mere use- less aristocrat - ornamental , but useless , a parasite brought up in ...
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... idea of her interest in the Big Things , the Things that Matter . " A Big Thing in mulberry livery ap- peared just then with something that Mattered very much to Terry - namely , tea . It was followed by a second tall footman bearing ...
... idea of her interest in the Big Things , the Things that Matter . " A Big Thing in mulberry livery ap- peared just then with something that Mattered very much to Terry - namely , tea . It was followed by a second tall footman bearing ...
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